SOLUTION BRIEF
Storage Services for OpenStack Clouds
Flash Storage for Cinder, Swift, and Glance
Deliver Fast, Reliable, Storage Services More Efficiently
Choosing the right storage for your OpenStack cloud is more important than you think.
Homegrown solutions using commodity hardware and open source software may seem
appealing at first, but in reality they are inefficient, difficult to manage, and rarely meet the
performance and reliability needs of enterprises.
The Nimble Storage Predictive Flash platform provides an OpenStack Cinder driver for block
storage and also enables flash storage for Swift object storage and Glance image services:
Cinder
Accelerate and automate block storage. Provide flash performance and automate block
storage provisioning and offload storage operations using native efficient snapshots and
cloning features.
Swift
Reduce costs and latency for object storage. Remove the overhead of three copies
through array-based HA and resiliency and achieve better latency performance with
flash storage.
Glance
Rapid deployment and space savings for image services. Efficient snapshots and clones
allow you to deploy hundreds or thousands of virtual machine images rapidly without
needing to make full copies and without consuming extra storage capacity.
Build an Enterprise-class OpenStack Cloud for Less
Efficiency. Remove the overhead of three copy policies typical of Ceph and Swift with
array-based HA and resiliency. Achieve up to 5X data reduction from features like inline
compression and deduplication, while data is protected with space efficient snapshots,
replication, and clones.
Enterprise Service Levels. 99.9999% measured uptime and performance up to 1.2 million
IOPS ensures your OpenStack cloud will exceed uptime and performance SLAs.
Security and Multitenancy. Provide tenant level encryption and data shredding. Further
isolate tenants with multitenancy at the storage network and volume levels. Provide Quality
of Service to prevent rogue workloads from monopolizing resources and ensure everyone
gets their fair share.
Manage OpenStack, Not your Storage. Nimble InfoSightTM Predictive Analytics helps
predict and prevent issues across the infrastructure stack. Native driver integration
automates storage provisioning through OpenStack. InfoSight allows you to focus on cloud
orchestration and spend less time managing your storage and infrastructure.
SOLUTION OVERVIEW
Accelerate and automate Cinder
Reduce costs and latency for Swift
Rapid deployment and fewer copies
for Glance
BENEFITS
Efficiency beyond commodity
storage. Drastically reduce storage
footprint and costs by up to 5X or
more with space saving and data
protection features.
Deliver enterprise SLAs. Meet and
exceed uptime and performance
SLAs.
Secure and isolate tenants
with tenant level encryption,
multitenancy, and Quality of
Service features.
Simplify storage management.
InfoSight Predictive Analytics and
driver integrations automate storage
management and predicts and
prevent problems before they occur.
Nimble OpenStack Driver Features
Volume
Operations
Volume Stats /
Attributes
Volume create/delete
Driver version
Volume attach/detach
Free capacity
Snapshot create/
delete
Reservation (%)
Create volume from
snapshot
Total capacity
Get volume stats
Volume backend
Copy image to volume
Copy volume to Image
Clone volume
Extend volume
Partner Certifications
Nimble has been a contributor to the OpenStack community since 2013. We also work with
distribution partners to ensure our storage is easy to deploy and works with supported and
stable releases.
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